Ok I took a look at the source and I think I found your problem. You
can see the snippet here: http://paste.mootools.net/f3e3edbdf
Ignoring the 'body' problem I was having... in your example, $
('myDivThatDoesntExist') resolves to null because it doesn't exist.
Then, the first line of the method does the following:
if (!selector || (selector == this)) return true;
Since selector is null, the first condition of the if resolves to
true, thus the method returns true. I'm not really sure why you'd want
a match method return true in a case where the argument is null or
undefined so I think it's a bug.
On Apr 3, 12:08 am, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there, got something strange with element.match()
>
> when I do this
>
> $('body').match($('myDivThatDoesntExist'))
>
> it returns true... in fact, I cant get it to reliably match anything
> other than a selector string.
> The docs say .match() should work on selector strings AND
> elements...Is this a bug?
>
> Thanks
> Jacob
